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I'm surprised it's not higher.
The 76ers, expected to be the worst team in the league this year and maybe one of the worst in NBA history, are a 1,000-to-1 longshot according to R.J. Bell of Pregame.com.
The over/under total on the 76ers number of...

Summer brings more scientific proof that TV's oceans are indeed rising with a glut of content. Among other unnatural disasters between now and Labor Day, Syfy has a D.C.-based "Sharknado" movie (July 22) and there's a Lifetime movie about the...

It's June again, time for the annual tradition of LeBron James on your TV for four to seven games.
James is in the NBA Finals a fifth consecutive year, his ZIP Code notably changing, but his appearances still as common as June blossoms.
He has no...

On a sun-splashed Tuesday afternoon when the Bulls introduced Fred Hoiberg as the 19th coach in franchise history, the symbolism couldn’t be ignored.
The Bulls are hoping the dark clouds that mostly defined a turbulent 50-win season have departed.
...

So what if seemingly everyone with a reporter's notebook and Twitter handle says it's a done deal.
Until the official word comes at 2 p.m. Tuesday that Fred Hoiberg has become the Bulls' coach, Iowa State alumnus and Hoiberg friend Dickson Jensen says:...

Somewhere, Chris Paul is slowly shaking his head, all too aware that the Houston Rockets are never quite out of it when you think they are.
It's too early to say the Rockets have the Golden State Warriors exactly where they want them, but Houston...

In case you didn't know who finished second in the most-valuable-player vote, James Harden wanted to inform you.He was the best player Monday, not Stephen Curry, and the Houston Rockets shrugged off possible elimination with a 128-115 victory over...

Stephen Curry keeps making threes and the Golden State Warriors keep getting closer to their first NBA Finals appearance in 40 years.
They're really one and the same, the NBA most valuable player continually pushing the Warriors in their attempt to...

Down big at home, the Golden State Warriors went small.
It turned out to make a huge difference.
Stephen Curry hit two free throws in the final seconds to finish with 34 points, and the Warriors rallied from a 16-point deficit in the second quarter to...

After he heard his boss deliver a moving speech about persevering through repeated disappointment, a thought struck Clippers assistant coach Lawrence Frank.
Who was there to support Coach Doc Rivers through his distress?
So Frank called Rivers early...

Pushed to the edge of their season and with doubt surrounding them, the Houston Rockets responded to the challenge they were presented.
The Rockets won their must-win Game 5 Tuesday night, routing the Clippers, 124-103, by producing their best...

The Clippers lost more than a game here Tuesday night. They also lost an opportunity to give Chris Paul additional rest.
Had the Clippers closed out the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference semifinals, their point guard could have had as much as a...

After already answering one question about being hacked, DeAndre Jordan was asked during a postgame news conference what his thoughts were when the Houston Rockets started intentionally fouling him 3 minutes and 40 seconds into Sunday's Game 4 in the...

The Clippers' 128-95 blowout over Houston in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals on Sunday night put the Clippers one game away from reaching the Western Finals for the first time. Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan also won their...

Grab, pull, tug.
Push, shove, hold.
The Houston Rockets made the mistake of intentionally annoying the bully on the block, who shrugged and clobbered them with lobs and dunks and the kind of resolve that cannot be measured by any analytics savant.
Send...

What a long, strange trip to the free-throw line for DeAndre Jordan. Again and again.
The Clippers center is now in the NBA record books, though not for a reason he'd ever envision, after taking 28 free-throw attempts in the first half of the Clippers'...

It seemed to be a desperate act by an apparently desperate Houston Rockets team, the taking of the Hack-A-Jordan to heights never seen before in an NBA playoff game.
Houston's whacking away at Clippers center DeAndre Jordan — the 28 free throws he shot...

Houston Rockets Coach Kevin McHale said Clippers forward Matt Barnes crossed the line by making what a website said was a very rude comment to James Harden's mom during Game 2 on Wednesday night at the Toyota Center.
Harden’s mom, Monja Willis, was...

Shortly before taking his place on the Clippers' bench with a sore leg for a second consecutive playoff game against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday, Chris Paul tried to look on the bright side.
After all, he reminded his teammates, they had just won...

The game, and perhaps even the season, was slipping away from the Houston Rockets.
They were forced to dig deep in Game 2 and find that energy they were missing in the Western Conference semifinals against the Clippers.
The Rockets finally produced a...